5/18/2023 0 Comments Weems kitchen table series![]() She’s a guide into circumstances seldom seen.” I think it’s very important that as a Black woman she’s engaged with the world around her she’s engaged with history, she’s engaged with looking, with being. “Carrying a tremendous burden, she is a Black woman leading me through the trauma of history. She’s a witness and a guide,” Weems told fellow photographer Dawoud Bey in a discussion for Bomb magazine in 2009. “This woman can stand in for me and for you she can stand in for the audience, she leads you into history. ![]() Though her output is multifaceted, Weems has continued to return to the “muse” figure first introduced in the intimacy of the kitchen-a woman who stands in for all women, guiding viewers through antebellum Louisiana or the vast exteriors of famous museums. ![]() Since photographing “The Kitchen Table Series” (Weems’s breakthrough project, though not her earliest), the Syracuse, New York–based artist has produced prolific bodies of photography and video work, earned a MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 2013, and became the first Black woman to receive a retrospective at the Guggenheim the following year. ![]()
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